Avian responses to climate extremes: insights into abundance curves and species sensitivity using the UK Breeding Bird Survey.

ABSTRACT: Climate change remains one of the most urgent challenges for biodiversity conservation. Recent studies have highlighted that climate extremes (CLEXs) can lead to widespread and negative effects across all taxa and ecological levels, but most of these studies are based on short-term periods and small spatial scales and lack a multi-species approach. Here, using generalised additive models (GAMs) and the UK Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), we described response curves for the abundance of 100 resident bird species over large spatial and temporal scales and identified the species showing a greater sensitivity to CLEXs. We used five climatic indices computed at 1-km spatial resolution as proxies of CLEXs during the winter or breeding season and considered both 1- and 2-year lagged effects. The resu

SUBMITTER: Tirozzi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830718 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature